Principal Solution Architect

Type of contract: Employment contract

Salary range: 30000 - 46000 PLN gross

What will you do?

As a Principal Solution Architect, you will advise stakeholders and translate business requirements into secure, scalable, and reliable software solutions. You will play a key role in designing and delivering a next generation greenfield digital bank in the UAE based on a cloud-native, domain-led, event-driven, API-first, and AI-native architecture. You will lead technical engagements, drive architectural decisions, and ensure successful implementation of strategic solutions while collaborating with senior business and technology stakeholders.

Your tasks

• Design secure, scalable, and reliable software solutions aligned with business requirements
• Define target architectures and technology roadmaps for strategic initiatives
• Lead technical discussions with stakeholders and client representatives
• Drive adoption of cloud-native, domain-driven, event-driven, and API-first architectural principles
• Support architecture governance and ensure alignment with enterprise standards
• Design integration patterns, microservices, and distributed systems architectures
• Provide guidance on production readiness, resilience, security, monitoring, and observability
• Collaborate with engineering teams throughout solution implementation
• Support sales initiatives and contribute to proposals and offering materials
• Capture and share architecture best practices across the solution architecture community

Your skills

• Polish and English language proficiency at a fluent level is a mandatory requirement for this role
• Experience in designing and building software solutions using modern architectures and technologies
• Experience working with public cloud platforms, preferably Azure, AWS, or GCP
• Expert knowledge of Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery practices
• Expert knowledge of Agile principles and methodologies
• Expert knowledge of enterprise architecture, infrastructure, and integration patterns
• Experience designing microservices architectures
• Experience with Kubernetes, containerization, Kafka, infrastructure as code, service mesh, and API gateways
• Knowledge of high availability, disaster recovery, logging, monitoring, and other non-functional requirements
• Advanced knowledge of networking, virtualization, identity management, security, business continuity, disaster recovery, data management, budgeting, and governance
• Ability to translate business requirements into secure, scalable, and reliable solutions
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
• Ability to work independently with senior stakeholders
• Experience supporting pre-sales activities and creating offering materials
• Experience leading and managing architects, engineers, or cross-functional technology teams

Nice to have

• Experience in the financial services industry
• Experience with Domain-Driven Design
• Experience with event-driven architectures
• Experience with data-centric architectures
• Experience building digital banking platforms
• Experience delivering cloud-native transformation programs

We offer

• Hybrid work in one of our locations: Lodz, Poznan, Krakow, Warsaw, Wroclaw (2 office days per week)
• Working in a highly experienced and dedicated team
• Benefit package tailored to your needs (medical, sport, lunch subsidy, life insurance, etc.)
• Online training and certifications
• Access to e-learning platform
• Work From Anywhere (up to 140 days/year abroad)
• Social events